Improvement in fountain-pens



" R. DOUGLASS.

' FOUNTAIN-PEN. No.17 8,91'4. Patented June 20. 1876.

N.PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON. D C.

NITED STATES PATENT QEEIoE.

IMPROVEMENT lhl FOUNTAlN-PENS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178.91 1, dated J nne 20, 1876; application filed March 21, 1876. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT DOUGLASS, of Buctouche, in New Brunswick, Canada, have invented a new and Improved Fountain-Pen, of which the following is a specification:

The ,invention consists of a spoon-shaped termination of the back portion of the fountainholder, in the cavity of which is the opening for the issue of the ink, and over whichthe pen is attached, so as to receive the ink a suitable distance above the point. There is a cock in the ink-passage from the bottom of the fountain to this issue, to regulate and shut off the flow of ink at will, and at the top of the fountain is a vent to admit air, for allowing the ink to flow out properly.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the fountainholder without the pen, and Fig. 2- is a sectional elevation together with the pen.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the tube constituting the fountainholder, from the lower end of thecavity of which is a passage, B,'which emerges in the cavity of a spoo1i=shaped termination, O, at

c the back and lower end of the tube, onto which the pen D is fastened by bands E or other suitthat may be partly or wholly closed by turn-.

ing the cap, so as to control the inlet of air, as may be required.

The fountain may be made of india-rubber or other approved material, and the cook and the plug or'stopper J at the top of the tube may be made of cork or other material adapted for the purpose. v

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentv The combination of a pen, D, ink-receiver O, and bands E, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

ROBERT DOUGLASS.

Witnesses:

THO. WETMORE Buss, H. T. STEVENS. 

